3D Printed Map (of New Zeaaland)

 

This week we're returning to school in New Zealand - Auroa Primary School is back this Thursday with a new wonderful group of students.  One of the first activities is based around where our students are from and what is important to them.

We are looking at the possibilities of including some AR/VR design and 3D Printing into it.   Two things of importance are the map of New Zealand/Aotearoa as we look at our location and where our students are from.

This ,stl image was sourced from Thingiverse and printed in under one hour.   It is able to be printed as shown and has considerable geographic accuracy.   It is not complete - there are issues with Ninety Mile Beach/Te Oneroa-a-Tone and Stewart Island/Rakiura.

The print will give our students an aspect to think about their location and where we are from.   We also want to think about how we might use this as part of a design to feature or display something in the classroom hence the decision to complete the print with glow-in-the-dark filament.

The print measures 20cm from the bottom to the top is 40mm wide for most of the print - and 60mm at the widest point.    The print is only 10mm thick in most places - it was stretched further however this tended to have the peaks looking out of scale.   We are going to look at the opportunity to back it onto something such as a piece of MDF.